... Russians first lost the Crimean war (because of the lack of proper training of the huge Russian army), made Russia ripe for a change in its political ideas. The loss caused great economic depression that lasted for more then a half of a century (Bales James 138). During this depression many ideologies ... fighting was not direct war (although some of it was through other countries) between the U.S.A and Russia but in an indirect war for political ideas called the Cold War. And when looked up in the encyclopedia it states that: The relationship of this first Communist state with the rest...

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... state. Grievances were long standing. France was an absolute monarchy and a fatal weakness in the system was its inability to produce strong monarchs. Louis XVI was weak and unstable. The population was divided into three estates, with the majority belonging to the third. Although the richest ... of the hated Lettres de Cachet. A limited monarch now appeared and the National Assembly had set up eighty-three departments, had curbed the power of the church and abolished the evils of the old regime. Ironically, however, now armed with a free press, Robespierre and others soon ... with Eur...

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